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Stories by the Brothers Grimm are not as kid-friendly as children’s books perhaps ought to be to the modern eye. Mutilation, murder, cannibalism, and cruelty mark the tales, making for somewhat scarring bedtime stories. 1. The Juniper Tree – A boy, salted with his sister’s tears, is served to his father for supper. Brought back to life as a bird by tears of blood, the boy kills his step-mother, who had decapitated him with the heavy lid of a chest, and everyone lives happily ever after. Hooray! 2. Little...
...college intern in the Brownback family's Chrysler minivan. He is looking at a map, pumping his own gas, paying with his own credit card and then running into McDonald's. "$7.15? For a yogurt parfait and a small cheeseburger?" Brownback asks the cashier, who explains that the college kid got a Big Mac. "Oh," he says, and drags a $20 bill and a quarter from his pocket...
...When you decide to have a kid at 18, you sacrifice your social life, especially when you decide to go to Harvard,” Woo laughs. “Once in awhile, I get to watch TV at night.” PAY IT FORWARD...
...twenty years ago, I...would have ended up in academics,” says Prather, who instead took a job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “But with a family—I already had one kid and another on the way—I couldn’t. Not in the current job market...
When I was a kid growing up in Honolulu, Pearl Harbor was a vivid, recurring reminder of Japanese wartime aggression. At 11:45 a.m. on the first working day of every month, a test of the city's air raid sirens would start up and I'd wonder what it must have felt like to hear them whine on Dec. 7, 1941. As a Japanese American, though, my feelings about the attack were always somewhat conflicted...